Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1900. 
Notes  and  News. 
vii 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
The  University  of  Wisconsin. — The  School  of  Pharmacy  offers  this  sum- 
mer, beginning  July  2d,  a  course  of  instruction  which  is  adapted  "  to  the  limited 
circumstances  and  time  of  the  student,  enabling  him  to  embrace  only  the 
essentials  of  study." 
The  University  of  Michigan. — A  course  of  studies  in  pharmacology, 
bacteriology  and  physiological  chemistry  is  being  organized  at  the  University 
of  Michigan,  to  take  the  time  of  one  college  year,  in  adaptation  to  the  needs  of 
graduates  in  pharmacy  who  are  to  make  a  specialty  of  biological  work.  Such 
work  has  to  be  done  in  the  pharmaceutical  manufacturing  houses,  and  wherever 
physiological  valuations  are  necessary. 
Frank  G.  Ryan,  formerly  Instructor  in  Pharmacy  and  Assistant  Director  in 
the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  has 
accepted  a  position  as  head  pharmacist  of  the  manufacturing  department  of 
Parke,  Davis  &  Co.  In  order  to  fill  the  vacancies  thus  created,  C.  H.  La  Wall, 
a  well-known  contributor  to  this  Journae,  was  elected  Instructor  in  Pharmacy 
and  B.  F.  Cook  Assistant  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory. 
H.  H.  Rusby,  the  honorary  curator  of  the  economic  collections  of  the  New 
York  Botanical  Garden,  has  displayed  his  usual  energy  in  securing  complete 
local  collections  of  economical  material  as  well  as  extensive  donations  from 
various  individuals  and  firms  for  that  institution. 
Charees  F.  ChandeER  has  been  elected  President  of  the  College  of  Phar- 
macy of  the  city  of  New  York. 
W.  B.  Saunders,  of  Philadelphia,  has  recently  associated  with  himself  in 
business,  under  the  firm  name  of  W.  B.  Saunders  &  Co.,  Mr.  F.  L.  Hopkins, 
manager  of  the  subscription  department,  and  Mr.  T.  F.  Dagney,  manager  of 
the  publication  department.  These  gentlemen  have  been  connected  with  the 
establishment  almost  from  its  inception,  and  to  their  capable  management  of 
their  respective  departments  Mr.  Saunders  attributes  much  of  the  success  that 
has  attended  his  efforts. 
Carboeic  Acid  and  War. — The  demand  for  carbolic  acid  for  explosives  has 
increased  rapidly  in  Germany  in  the  past  ten  years.  In  earlier  years  carbolic 
acid  was  used  largely  in  the  manufacture  of  dyes.  It  is  now  largely  used  also 
in  the  manufacture  of  lyddite  of  South  African  notoriety. — Am.  Gas  Light 
Jour.,  1900,  p.  694. 
Candy  for  the  Soediers. — Fifty  tons  of  candy  have  been  sent  to  the 
soldiers  in  the  Philippine  Islands  by  the  Commissary  Department  of  the  army 
during  the  last  three  months,  and  large  amounts  to  the  soldiers  in  Cuba  and 
Puerto  Rico.  This  is  done  upon  the  advice  of  the  medical  as  well  as  line  offi- 
cers of  the  army,  because  it  is  a  physiological  fact  that  in  the  tropics  a  moder- 
ate consumption  of  confectionery  promotes  health  and  satisfies  a  natural  and 
not  unhealthful  craving  of  the  stomach .  —Med.  News,  1900,  p.  427. 
Poeeen  Grains  and  CaTarrhae  TroubeES. — M.  Hilliger  (/Hits.  Gart. 
Zeit.)  examined  the  expectorated  products  of  the  members  of  a  family  that 
were  each  year  afflicted  with  an  irritant  cough  and  other  catarrhal  symptoms, 
